UPDATE: Kali Linux 2017.2 Release

About five months ago, I wrote about Kali Linux 2017.1. We now have an update – Kali Linux 2017.2, which is a roll-up of all updates since the last release. In addition to all of the standard security and package updates that are submitted via Debian Testing, this release also has more than a dozen new tools!

Changeme v0.2.3 – A default credential scanner, designed to be simple to add new credentials without having to write any code or modules.

CredDump7 – A python tool to extract various credentials and secrets from Windows registry hives.

Crowbar – Brute-forcing tool to be used during penetration tests to brute force some protocols in a different manner according to other popular brute forcing tools.

OSRFramework – OSRFramework, the GNU AGPLv3+ set of libraries to perform Open Source Intelligence tasks. They include references to a bunch of different applications related to username checking, DNS lookups, information leaks research, deep web search, regular expressions extraction and many others.

Additionally, this release also includes numerous package updates, including jd-gui, dnsenum, edb-debugger, WPScan, Watobo, BurpSuite and many others. Kali Linux 2017.2 also improves the overall integration of packages.

Download Kali Linux 2017.2:

As we all know, you can simply run apt-dist update && apt-get dist-upgrade to update to the latest Kali Linux version. However, if you want to download VMWare, VirtualBox, Hyper-V or ARM images (such as Kali-Linux-2017.2-vm-amd64.7z), simply go on to this page. Do not forget to check out the updated Kali Linux official documentation too! Also, don’t forget to check out the online version of Kali Linux Revealed book here.

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